Analysis details
This verse's score: 0.85. Widest pair of the 5 renderings, at 1.00.Kaf, Ha, Ya, Ayn, Saad.
K. H. Y. ‘H. Z.
Maryam مريم
- Mary
- 98 verses
- 961 words
- Meccan
- 44th of 114 in revelation order
- Opens with كٓهيعٓصٓ
In plain wordsEditorial
An editorial summary of the translations. Not a translation or tafsir.
Ninety-eight verses, a sequence of accounts of named figures — among them Zachariah and John, Mary and Jesus, Abraham, Moses and Aaron — taking its name from Mary, named at verse 16. It opens with disconnected letters and a prayer for a son.
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worded differently
Where the translators differDerived
The verses of this surah whose wording differs most, most differently worded first. Under each, the two renderings that share the fewest words are quoted in full under their translators' names; every rendering is on the verse's own page. This measures wording, not meaning.
Analysis details
This verse's score: 0.77. Widest pair of the 5 renderings, at 0.85.But they were succeeded by generations who lost the prayers and followed their appetites. They will meet perdition.
But a succeeding generation have come after them, who neglect prayer, and follow their lusts; and they shall surely fall into evil
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Analysis details
This verse's score: 0.75. Widest pair of the 5 renderings, at 0.84.They will have no power of intercession, except for someone who has an agreement with the Most Merciful.
None shall have power to intercede, save he who hath received permission at the hands of the God of Mercy
Analysis details
This verse's score: 0.75. Widest pair of the 5 renderings, at 0.83.Did he look into the future, or did he receive a promise from the Most Merciful?
Hath he mounted up into the secrets of God? Hath he made a compact with the God of Mercy
Analysis details
This verse's score: 0.74. Widest pair of the 5 renderings, at 1.00.You have come up with something monstrous.
Assuredly ye utter a disastrous thing
More about this surahDerived
- Verses
- 98
- Words
- 961
- Place
- Meccan
- Revelation position
- 44th of 114 in an ordering its source does not name
- Opening letters
- كٓهيعٓصٓ one of 29 surahs that open this way
- Bismillah
- Carried by the surah, unnumbered
- Word-by-word breakdown
- 66.0% of 961 words carry an analysis
- 96
- 68
- 73
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- 1
- 111
- 81
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Meccan Medinan
Counted from the text and the spine at build time, not written into the page. Opening letters are derived from the edition's orthography: an opening token of at most five letters carrying none of its vocalisation marks. The revelation position is reproduced from Revelation order as encoded by the Tanzil metadata, which does not name whose ordering it is.
Analysis detailsDerived
These figures count the words the translations share. They measure wording, not meaning, and they do not say which translation is right.
- Mean score across this surah
- 0.58 across 98 scored verses
The page says a verse is worded differently only above the cut below. The cut is a stated convention, not a property of the text, and it can be changed.
- The cut
- 0.644
- Share of measured verses above it
- 33%
- Verses above it
- 2,079
- Verses measured
- 6,236
Method Wording differences — derived 13 September 2026
- Method
- Mean pairwise Jaccard distance over the lowercased word sets of the cleared translations of each verse. A verse is marked as worded differently when its score falls in the top third of the corpus — the cut set out in Analysis details.
- Scored
- 6,236 verses
- As at
- 13 September 2026, 10:56 UTC
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